I think everyone should also consider that Android phones are also being sold in places outside of the US, for instance Japan . Once they roll out more headsets out in other countries they will be able to closer to the predicted numbers, but I do not see them meeting it.

It may well be that it has taken 6 months to reach 1 million, but a 900% growth in 2009 requires selling 10 times as much in 2009 *than what was sold in 2008*.

How many G1 phones were sold by december 31, 2008? I don't think anybody outside TMobile knows the real figures, but say it was 500K (and it was possibly less); then 5M in 2009 will do, so there is less than 4.5M to go.

so thats what its called, Magic. My bro got one last week (white) and its way better than the iThingy.

For me a mobile is a thing that makes calls and occasionally txts some 3 words (I hate typing on mobs) so the whole web and crap is so much better left to my PC rig.

Although the quotes from Arnie and homer just to name a few a cool, but novelty certainly wears off a couple of hour later

The HTC MAGIC;
http://www.htc.com/www/product/magic/overview.html

is launching wide in June, and is already advertising in stores.

So there's more than just the Q3/4 updates which are meant to compete with the other launch schedules.

Why is it people forget there are multiple launch timelines? Just like last time when everyone chirped about iPhone growth after being launched against no major competitors' product, only to be followed by the Q4 launches by RIM and the WinMob boyz which outstripped the iPhone (which is now surrounded by RIM products [Curve outselling , Storm coming in a close third]).

900% growth is quite plausible since 6 million units is from Android being sold by all producers and not just a single product line from one producer.
Heck google's already got alot of Blackberry, iPhone, WinMob using their tools on competitor's devices/OSs so it's not like Google is having to worry about having apps on their phones, they'll have them on all phones, much to the service provider's dislike as Google targets their app add-on margin.